Moon Express raises enough funds to try to mine the Moon
Moon Express, a private company that wants to mine the Moon, has just raised $20 million and achieved its funding goal to launch its...
The Moon will crash into Earth, but it’s OK, scientists say
A recent discovery by scientists at the University of Idaho predicts that the Moon will crash into Earth in a collision brought by a...
Humanity is closer to creating semi-synthetic life forms
A group of researchers from China, France, and the United States has managed to successfully insert genetic code into E. coli microbes, which essentially...
Harvard expert discovers LHS 1140b, a “habitable” exoplanet
Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a new exoplanet named LHS 1140b. This ‘super-Earth’ orbits a red dwarf just 39 light years...
NASA launches a massive open access archive called SpacePub
NASA’S Dwayne Brown announced most of the agency's research would be available on a new public access portal called SpacePub. Nasa dropped the news...
New Horizons discovers clouds in Pluto, aims at next target
The New Frontiers program keeps finding new things in our cosmos. NASA scientists have received a new batch of data from the New Horizons...
Scientists claim they found proof the universe is a hologram
A team of scientists claims the universe could be a “vast and complex hologram,” according to a study published last week in the Physical...
Study says smart people tend to like mean jokes
Ulrike Willinger and a team of researchers from the Medical University of Vienna conducted a study to find out whether there is a relation...
Western Antarctica glaciers are swiming on hot water and melting faster...
New studies reveal West Antarctica is melting faster than ever, making it difficult for the glacier to replenish itself. Scientists from the University of California...
NOAA: GOES-16 Satellite starts sending HD photos of Earth
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released the first images of Earth taken by the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on the agency’s Geostationary...